...Oxford University Press This chapter reviews a new “theory of error,” which is a way of classifying errors based on three principal types of error causes. Mechanisms and solutions are proposed for each of these major error types. The strategies for error reduction that we discuss include those...

...A contextualist defence of cognitivism is open to the charge that it cannot supply a convincing theory of error for when moral judgements diverge. This chapter rebuts this concern: conditions have been set out for when apparent conflict between moral views really is such, or, alternatively, whether...

..., Fricker’s genealogy functions as a corrective, indicating respects in which our practices have in fact developed in ways that fall short of satisfying the needs highlighted by her model. It is then argued that making ameliorative use of the method requires pairing genealogy with a theory of error...